The Verge reports that this technology will be expanding to another 65 locations in the state, the largest expansion thus far.
The WinePress reported last year how the technology works:
The Verge adds, ‘Customers can set up Amazon One by registering their palm print using a kiosk or at a point-of-sale station at participating stores. To register, you need to provide a payment card and phone number, agree to Amazon’s terms of service, and share an image of your palms. Once completed, you can take items to checkout and not have to take out your wallet — or even your phone. A hover of your hand over the device is all that’s needed to pay and leave.’
Amazon One is also designed to work in tandem with the company’s other cashless systems, that allow consumers to simply walk-in and walk-out without ever having to physically transact anything. Select Whole Foods are immensely surveilled and purchases are automatically docked from customer’s bank accounts:
Amazon Opens First Whole Foods That Uses Cashierless Technology And Palm Scanners
The Verge concludes their report by noting, ‘Amazon has found success in convincing millions of customers to provide them with data in exchange for a more convenient lifestyle. Things like online shopping, grocery shopping, using Alexa, Ring smart cameras, doorbells, and now room-mapping robot vacuum cleaners are all areas that Amazon collects data in, and that will continue to be a concern to privacy advocates.’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Convenience is a killer, it is one of the core underpinnings to all the slothfulness and covetousness that has corrupted everyone these days, and a huge reason why we are in the bind that we are in, in the world today. It is convenience, coaxing, and being ‘forced’ to use their system is why so many people will go along with it.
This is NOT the mark of the beast, but it is surely priming the masses to later accept it.
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13:16-18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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It would do us a lot of good to train ourselves bit by bit to reject conveniences (starting with destroying and throwing away the cellphones some still cling to) and make our typical daily activities require more effort, like athletes training for an event. Only the event are the hard times, food shortages, violence, the beginning of sorrows.
Gives a whole new meaning to ‘palm reading’ (sorry, couldn’t resist).